Akira’s latest tactics expand the ransomware playbook: instead of relying solely on kernel drivers or signed binaries to disable protections, an affiliate in a recent intrusion rebooted a compromised host into Safe Mode with Networking to silence endpoint defenses while keeping network access for remote control and exfiltration. The operation began with a successful credential-spraying attack against an exposed SonicWall
Category: Data Breach
Data Breach, data breach alert, data leak, data leakage, security incident, breach investigation, breach response, credential leak, personal data exposure, data theft, leaked database, exposed records, account compromise, password leak, corporate data breach, remote code execution, cyber espionage
2.86 Billion Credentials Flood Criminal Markets — How Infostealers and Initial-Access Brokers Are Reshaping Risk
Stolen login data has become a commodity so abundant that it’s now cheap to buy in bulk — and alarmingly effective when attackers use it to pivot into corporate environments. In 2025, researchers reported roughly 2.86 billion compromised credentials traded across underground markets. That scale changes the calculus of identity: a correct username and password no longer prove much when
Amazon Faces Months of Repairs After Drone Strikes Cripple Middle East Data Centers
Amazon Web Services says recovery from drone strikes that hit its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will be measured in months, leaving customers in the region facing prolonged disruption and prompting a broader rethink of investments in Middle East infrastructure. The attacks, part of a wider bout of regional hostilities, knocked core compute racks offline, triggered
Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space
The race to keep massive AI workloads powered around the clock has led Meta to sign a capacity reservation agreement with Overview Energy, a startup developing spacecraft that collect solar energy in space and convert it to near-infrared light beamed at large terrestrial solar farms. The deal — for up to 1 gigawatt of capacity — is a notable early
Microsoft Outlook.com Hits Service Degradation: What Happened and How to Prepare
On April 27, 2026, Microsoft acknowledged a service degradation affecting Outlook.com after users across multiple regions reported problems accessing their inboxes. The company’s Microsoft 365 Status account on X confirmed intermittent issues, and Microsoft’s service health dashboard classified the incident as a “Service Degradation” rather than a full outage. For many organizations and individual users, the disruption meant delayed email
Hackers Leverage Microsoft Teams to Breach Organizations: Inside UNC6692’s SNOW Campaign
In late 2025 and into early 2026, a sophisticated intrusion campaign used the everyday familiarity of Microsoft Teams to turn routine collaboration into a direct route for enterprise compromise. By posing as IT helpdesk staff and exploiting users’ trust in external Teams invitations, the threat group tracked as UNC6692 moved from a simple chat message to full domain-level access—without exploiting